Feed the Matriarchy

Feed the Matriarchy is a sister-led podcast serving up real talk about food, body image, parenting, and feminist rebellion—while amplifying matriarchal voices across the spectrum. Each week, we unpack the ways diet culture and patriarchy have shaped our relationship with our bodies, our choices, and our worth, while highlighting the groundbreaking ways women are holding families, communities, and culture together—and changing them for the better. Through conversations with women and changemakers from many lived experiences, we explore what it means to truly nourish ourselves: not just with food, but with rest, pleasure, connection, courage, and truth.

Feed the Matriarchy is a education podcast hosted by Heather & Johanna Kulp, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Heather & Johanna Kulp hosts Feed the Matriarchy, a education show with 29 episodes published.

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  Episode #10

  Parenting Beyond Trauma: Why Your Nervous System Goes Haywire at Your Kid's Birthday Party

  Oct 4, 20261 hourS2

  This episode we're sitting down with Dr. Dana Harron, a Washington, DC-area psychologist, founder of Monarch Wellness and Psychotherapy, and author of Loving Someone with an Eating Disorder . Her second book, Parenting Beyond Trauma , comes out in April 2027. Dr Harron shares how a feminist, relational approach to eating disorder treatment shaped her work, and why she believes in supporting the people around someone who is struggling, whether that's a partner, a sibling, or a parent. The conversation then turns to parenting with a trauma history: how the nervous system puts safety first, why a small moment can suddenly feel like a hill to die on, and how our own childhoods can show up when our kids reach the age that was hard for us (cue Johanna's birthday party anxiety). Along the way we talk about the pressure of Instagram-perfect motherhood, why taking care of yourself is taking care of your kids, and how repair after a mistake can be a gift to a child. Dr Harron closes with what she's unlearning as she enters the second half of life. If you're trying to keep what was good from your childhood and leave the rest behind, this one is for you. To connect with Dr Dana Harron: https://www.monarchwellness.com/dana-harron-psyd Loving Someone with An Eating Disorder: To Purchase Parenting Beyond Trauma : To Purchase

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  Episode #9

  The Achievement Trap: Perfection, Failure, and the Matriarchy

  Sep 27, 202639 minS2

  In this episode, we go solo to unpack a theme that's quietly come up with almost every guest this season: the fear of failure, and how differently it shows up for women. We dig into the research — girls report significantly higher fear of failure than boys, and that gap only widens among high achievers — and trace it back to our own lives, from fifth-grade math tests to job losses to raising kids in a world that still tells girls perfect is the baseline. We talk about the conditioned instinct to ask "what did I do wrong?", the reflexive apology, the exhaustion of trying to be everything for everyone, and what it actually looks like to unlearn all of it — not by becoming fearless, but by learning to rest, to fail without spiraling, and to trust that an imperfect result is data, not a verdict. It's a conversation about conditioning, intuition, and giving yourself — and the next generation — permission to try the long shot.

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  Episode #8

  Looks Good on Paper, Feels Good in Real Life with Jessi Sheridan

  Sep 20, 202653 minS2

  This week we sit down with Jessi Sheridan, founder of Habituelle and author of The Executive Shift, for a conversation that hits every corner of the matriarchy. After nearly two decades climbing the corporate and nonprofit ladder — including time as a COO — Jessi walked away to build a coaching and community company dedicated to helping ambitious women create careers and lives that feel as good as they look on paper. They get into why imposter syndrome shows up at every level of success (yes, even for the women who look like they have it all figured out), the real difference between burnout and just being tired, and why mentorship should never cost you anything but the ask. Jessi also opens up about being labeled "put together" and "intimidating," and what it took to stop shrinking herself into other people's boxes. This one will have you rethinking what "success" actually means to you . To connect with Jessi, you can find more info here: https://habituelleleadership.com/ Or on Instagram: @_habituelle_ @jessi.sheridan

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  Episode #7

  Violet Learns: Raising Kids Who Trust Their Bodies with Kerry Miller, RD

  Sep 13, 202657 minS2

  Kerry Miller is a Registered Dietitian and mom of three daughters who spent years working with women whose complicated relationships with food traced all the way back to childhood. Instead of handing her own girls more rules, she wrote them stories — and that's how her book series, Violet Learns, was born. In this episode, Kerry joins us to talk about interoception, the "praise cycle," why silence was actually a protective gift in her own childhood, and the one phrase she wants every parent to keep in their back pocket at the dinner table. We get into what it really looks like to raise a kid who trusts her body, the language she's swapping in for old lines like "finish your plate," and why she believes awareness — not perfection — is what actually breaks the cycle. The first book in the series, Violet Learns to Pause, launches September 15. For more information: https://violetlearns.com/

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  You're Not Alone: Rachel Creighton on Postpartum Depression & the Wildflower Collective

  Sep 6, 20261h 6m

  This week we sit down with Rachel Creighton, founder and executive director of the Wildflower Collective, a nonprofit built from her own postpartum depression story. Rachel takes us into the darkest season of her life — the rage that scared her, the intrusive thoughts she was terrified to say out loud, and the moment medication finally quieted her brain enough to know it wasn't her fault. She's honest about the shame that still creeps in years later, and how she channeled that shame into a physical space where women can be honest too — free support groups, community programming, and a trusted network of practitioners for women who need care and can't afford to wait for it. What makes Rachel's story so powerful isn't just that she got through it. It's that she talks about it — and in doing so, gives every woman listening permission to stop believing she's the only one. To contribute to the Wildflower Collective non-profit: https://wildflowercollective.org/

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